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The UK Supreme Court is emerging as the chief line of resistance against EU hegemony

The British judiciary has begun to draw its sword. For the first time since the European Court asserted supremacy and launched its long campaign of teleological conquest, our own judges are fighting back.

It is the first stirring of sovereign resistance against an imperial ECJ that acquired sweeping powers under the Lisbon Treaty, and has since levered its gains to claim jurisdiction over almost everything.

What has emerged is an EU supreme court that knows no restraint and has been captured by judicial activists - much like the US Supreme Court in the 1970s, but without two centuries of authority and a ratified constitution to back it up.